Prov. xiv. 20. The poor is hated even / artfull, and when thy herds and thy of his neighbour, but the rich hath many flocks are multiplied, and thy silver and friends. Chap. xix. 4.

thy gold is multiplied; then thine heart Ver. 24. The crown of the wise is be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord their riches.

thy God, and thou say in thine heart, Eccl. ix. 16. The poor man's wisdom My power and the might of mine hand is despised, and his words are not heard. hath gotten me this wealth. Ver. 13,

Prov. xxii. 7. The rich ruleth over the 14. 17, 18. poor, and the borrower is servant to the xxxii. 13, 14. The Lord made Jacob lender.

ride on the high places of the earth, xviii. 23. The poor useth entreaties, that he might eat the increase of the but the rich answereth roughly.

fields; and he made him to suck honey

out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty CCIX. Trusting in riches and abusing rock; butter of kine and milk of sheep, them, the sin of the wicked, and avoided by with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed the good. Job xxxi. 24, 25. 28. If I have of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of made gold my hope, or have said to the kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink fme gold, Thou art my confidence-If I the pure blood of the grape.—Ver. 15. rejoiced because my wealth was great, and But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked: because mine hand had gotten much-I thou art waxen fat, thou art grown should have denied the God that is above. thick, thou art covered with fatness;

Ps. xlix. 6, 7. They that trust in their then he forsook God which made him, wealth, and boast themselves in the mul- and lightly esteemed the Rock of his titude of their riches; none of them can salvation. by any means redeem his brother, nor Hos. ii. 8, 9. She did not know that I give to God a ransom for him. Ver. 8. gave her corn, and wine and oil, and mul14.

tiplied her silver and gold. Therefore lii. 5. God shall destroy thee forever. will I return and take away my corn, &c. -Ver. 7. Lo, this is the man that made Ezek. xvi. 6 to 20. not God his strength, but trusted in the Amos viii. 5. The wicked say, When abundance of his riches.

will the Sabbath be gone that we may Ixii. 10. If riches increase, set not set forth wheat. your heart upon them.

Matt. viii. 31. Those who lost their Prov. xi. 28. He that trusteth in his swine, entreated Jesus to depart out of riches shall fall.

their coasts. x. 15. The rich man's wealth is his xiii. 22. The cares of this world, and strong city, and a high wall in his own the deceitfulness of riches, choke the conceit. Chap. xviii. 11.

word, and he becometh unfruitful. xxvii. 11. The rich man is wise in his xix. 21. Jesus said to the young man, own conceit.

If thou wilt be perfect, go sell that thou Jer. ix. 23. Thus saith the Lord, hast and give to the poor, and thou Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, shalt have treasure in heaven, and come neither let the mighty man glory in his and follow me.—Ver. 22. When the might, let not the rich man glory in his young man heard that saying, he went riches.

away sorrowful, for he had great posses. Mark x. 24. How hard is it for them sions. that trust in riches to enter into the king. Ver. 24. Jesus said, It is easier for a dom of God! Ver. 25.

camel to go through the eye of a needle, 1 Tim. vi. 17. Charge them that are than for a rich man to enter into the rich in this world, that they be not high kingdom of heaven. Mark x. 23, 24. minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, xxii. 2, 3. Jesus said, The kingdom but in the living God, who giveth us of heaven is like unto a certain king, richly all things to enjoy.

which made a marriage for his son ; and James ii. 6. Do not rich men oppress sent forth his servants to call them that you, and draw you before the judgment were bidden to the wedding, and they seat ?

would not come.-Ver. 5. They made

light of it, and went their ways, one to CCX. Riches take the heart and thoughts his farm, another to his merchandise, off from God and religion, Deut. viii. 12. Luke xiv. 16 to 20. Beware, lest when thou hast eaten and Luke xvi. 14. The Pharisees, who

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were covetous, heard these things spoken Luke vi. 24. Woe unto you that are by Christ against covetousness, and de. rich, for ye have received your consolarided him,

tion. Acts xvi. 18. Those who lost their xvi. 19. A rich man, clothed in pur. worldly gain by Paul's casting out a ple and fine linen; fared sumptuously spirit of divination, raise a tumult against every day.-Ver. 22, 23. He died; and him.

in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torxix. 24. Demetrius and his craftsmen ment, &c. do the same, for Paul's preaching against James i. 10. As the flower of the grass, idolatry, by which they had their wealth. the rich man shall fade away.

2 Cor. iv. 4. Satan is called the god of v. 1-3. Ye rich men, weep and howl, this world. Luke v. 4. He tempted Christ for your miseries that shall come upon with riches, to worship him.

you.

Your riches are corrupted, and Phil. iii. 19. The wicked, whose end your garments are moth-eaten. Your is destruction, mind earthly things. gold and silver is cankered; and the

1 Tim. vi. 10. The love of money is rust of them shall be a witness against the root of all evil; which while some co- you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye veted after, they erred from the faith. have heaped treasure together for the

2 Tim. iv. 10. Demas hath forsaken last days. See Rev. vi. 15.-xviii. 3. 8. me, (saith Paul) having loved this pre. 17. Eccl. xi. 9. sent world.

James iv. 4. Whosoever will be the friend of the world, is the enemy of THE USE OF RICHES. God.

1 John iv. 4. They are of the world; CCXII. The use of riches in the hands therefore speak they of the world, and the of a wise and good man towards himself. world heareth them. See Prov. xxx. 9. Eccl. iii. 12. There is no good in them, Hab. i. 16.

but for a man to rejoice and do good in

his life. CCXI. The wicked rich man; his por- v. 18. Behold that which I have seen; tion. Job xx. 15. He hath swallowed it is good and comely for one to eat, and down riches, and shall vomit them up to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his again : God shall cast them out of his labour that he taketh under the sun all the belly.

days of his life, which God giveth him ; xxvii. 16, 17. Though they heap up for it is his portion. silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as Ver. 19, 20. Every man also to whom the clay; (Hab. ii. 6.) he may prepare it, God hath given riches and power to eat but the just shall put it on, and the inno- thereof, and to take his portion, and to cent shall divide the silver.

rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of Ver. 19. The rich man shall lie down, God. For he shall not much remember but he shall not be gathered; he openeth the days of his life; because God answer. his eyes, and he is not. Ver. 20. 23. eth him in the joy of his heart. Ch. ii.

Ps. xvii. 14. O Lord, deliver my soul 24.-iii. 13.—viii. 15. from men of the world, which have their For the other uses which riches an. portion in this life, and whose belly thou swer, see in Commandment 5th, Duties fillest with thy hid treasure.

of parents toward children, and of people xxxix. 6. He heapeth up riches, and toward ministers- -And Commandment knoweth not who shall gather them. 8th, Duties of the rich.

Ixxiii. 3. I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. CCXIII. God maketh rich. Deut. viii.

- Ver. 7. Their eyes stand out with fat- 18. The Lord thy God, it is he that giveth ness; they have more than their heart thee power to get wealth. could wish.-Ver. 12. These are the un- 1 Sam. ii. 7. The Lord maketh poor, godly; they prosper in the world, they in- and he maketh rich. crease in riches. ---Ver. 17, 18. I went into 1 Kings iii. 13. The Lord said to So. the sanctuary of God; then I understood lomon, I have given thoe both riches and their end. Surely thou didst set them in honour. slippery places; thou castedst them down 1 Chron, xxix. 12. Solomon said to God, into destruction. Ps. xxxvii. 1. Job xxi. Both riches and honour come of thee. 7. Jer, xii. 1. Hab. i, 4,

Job i, 21. Job said, The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed to the righteous. Food promised. Gen. i. be the name of the Lord.

29. God said, Behold, I have given you Prov. x. 22. The blessing of the Lord every herb bearing seed, which is upon it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow the face of all the earth, and every tree in with it.

the which is the fruit of a tree yielding Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that seed; to you it shall be for meat. is good in his sight, wisdom and know. ix. 3. Every moving thing that liveth ledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth shall be meat for you; even as the green travail, to gather and to heap up, that he herb have I given you all things. may give to him that is good before God. Exod. xxiii. 25. Serve the Lord your Ch. iii. 13. See Gen. xxiv. 35.

God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy

water. CCXIV. Riches promised to the righ. Deut. vii. 12, 13. If ye hearken to teous. Ps. cxii. 2, 3. The generation of these judgments, and keep and do them, the upright shall be blessed. Wealth and the Lord thy God will bless the fruit of riches shall be in his house.

the land; thy corn and thy wine, and Prov. iii. 16. Length of days is in her thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and (Wisdom's) right hand, and in her left the flocks of thy sheep. Ver. 14. Isa. hand riches and honour. Ch. viii. 18, 19. xxx. 23. -xxii. 4.-xxiv. 3, 4.

viii. 7–9. The Lord thy God bring. xv. 6. In the house of the righteous eth thee into a good land, a land of is much treasure; but in the revenues of brooks of water, of fountains and depths the wicked is much trouble.

that spring out of the valleys and hills ; xxii. 4. By humility, and the fear of the a land of wheat and barley, and vines, Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land

of oil and honey; a land wherein thou CCXV. Instances of good men that shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou were rich. Abram, Gen. xiii. 2.-Lot, shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose Gen. xiii. 5.- Isaac, Gen. xxvi. 12, 13, 14. stones are iron, and out of whose hills -Jacob, Gen. xxx. 43.—xxxvi. 7.—David, thou mayest dig brass.-Ver. 10. When 1 Chron. xxix. 28.–Solomon, 1 Kings iii. thou hast eaten and art full, then thou 13.—x. 23. Eccl. ii. 4 to 10.- Job, Ch. i. shalt bless the Lord, for the good land 3.–Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. xvii. 5.—Heze. which he hath given thee. kiah, 2 Chron. xxxii. 17 to 3).

xi. 13—15. If ye shall hearken dili.

gently unto my commandments, to love CCXVI. Instances of riches not regard. the Lord your God, and to serve him ed by good men. Gen. xiv. 21. The king with all your heart and with all your of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the soul; I will give you the rain of your persons, and take the goods to thyself.— land in due season, the first rain and Ver. 23. Abram said, I will not take any. the latter rain, and thou mayest gather thing that is thine.

in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine xxviii. 20. Jacob said, If God will be oil. And I will send grass in thy fields with me, and keep me in the way that I for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and go; and will give me bread to eat, and be fuli. rainent to put on, so that I come again xxviii. 2. These blessings shall come to my father's house in peace; then shall on thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the the Lord be my God.

voice of the Lord thy God. 1 Kings iii. 11. Solomon asked wis. Ver, 3–5. Blessed shalt thou be in dom, and not riches.

the city, and blessed shalt thou be in Prov. xxx. 8, 9. Agar prayed, Give me the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of neither poverty nor riches; feed me with thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and the fruit of thy cattle, and the inand deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? crease of thy kine, and the flocks of or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket name of thy God in vain.

and thy 'store.- Ver. 8. The Lord will Gal. vi. 14. Paul said, The world is command his blessing upon thee in thy crucified unto me, and I unto the world. store-houses.-Ver. 12. The Lord shall

open unto thee his good treasure ; the CCXVII. Those things that are neces. heaven to give the rain unto thy land sary for the support of man's life, promised in his season, and to bless all the work

over.

of thine hands; and thou shalt lend unto the work of their hands. They shall many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. not labour in vain, nor bring forth for Ch. xxx. 9.-xxxiii. 28. Isa. xxx. 23. trouble; for they are the seed of the

Ruth i. 6. The Lord hath visited his blessed of the Lord, and their offspring people, in giving them bread.

with them. Ps. xxiii. 1: The Lord is my Shep

Ezek. xxxvi. 29, 30. I will save you herd, I shall not want.-Ver. 5. Thou from your uncleanness: I will call for preparest a table for me, my cup runneth the corn, and will increase it; and I will

multiply the fruit of the tree, and the inxxxiv. 9. There is no want to them crease of the field. that fear God.—Ver. 10. The young lions

Joel ü. 19. 26. I will send you corn and do lack and suffer hunger; but they that wire. (Hos. ii. 22.) Ye shall eat in plenty seek the Lord shall not want any good and be satisfied. See Zech. ix. 17. thing.

See Isaac's blessing to his sons, conxxxvii

. 3. Trust in the Lord, and do sisting chiefly, (Zech. viii. 12.) of the fruits good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and of the earth, Gen. xxvii. 28.-xxxvii. 39. verily thou shalt be fed.

See Acts xiv. 17. Ver. 16. A little that a righteous man See Promises to obedience. hath, is better than the riches of many wicked. (Prov. xvi. 8.) Ver. 25. I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his DELIVERANCE FROM FAMINE. seed begging bread.

cvii. 38. He blesseth them, so that they CCXVIII. Deliverance from famine. are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not Job v. 20. In famine he shall redeem thee their cattle to decrease.

from death.-Ver. 22. At destruction and cxi. 5. He hath given meat unto them famine thou shalt laugh. that fear him; he will ever be mindful of Ps. xxxiii. 18, 19. Behold the eye of his covenant.

the Lord is on them that fear him, on cxxviii. 1, 2. Blessed is every one that them that hope in his mercy; to deliver feareth the Lord; that walketh in his their soul from death, and to keep them ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of alive in famine. thy hands : happy shalt thou be, and it xxxvii. 19. They shall not be ashamed shall be well with thee.

in the evil time, and in the days of famine cxxxii. 15. I will abundantly bless they shall be satisfied. her provisions, and will satisfy her poor cvii. 9. He satisfieth the longing with bread.

soul, and filleth the hungry soul with Prov. iii. 9, 10. Honour the Lord with goodness. thy substance, and with the first fruits of cxlvi. 7. Which giveth food to the all thine increase. So shall thy barns be hungry. filled with plenty, and thy presses shall

Isa. xli. 17. When the poor and needy burst out with new wine.

scek water, and there is none, and their x. 3. The Lord will not suffer the soul tongue faileth for thirst; I the Lord will of the righteous to famish.

hear them, I the God of Israel will not xiii. 25. The righteous eateth to the forsake them. satisfying of his soul; but the belly of the Ezek. xxxvi. 29, 30. I will call for wicked shall want.

the corn and will increase it, and will lay Isa. xxxiii. 15. He that walketh righ no famine upon you. Ye shall receive teously, bread shall be given him, and his no more reproach of famine among the waters shall be sure. Ver. 16.

heathen. lxv. 13. Behold, my servants shall Hab. iii. 17, 18. Though the fig-tree eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in my servants shall drink, but ye shall be the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail

, thirsty.

and the fields shall yield no meat; the Ver. 21–23. They shall build houses flock shall be cut off from the fold, and and inhabit them, and they shall plant there shall be no herd in the stalls : Yet vineyards and eat the fruit of them. will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in They shall not build and another inhabit, the God of my salvation. they shall not plant and another eat; for Matt. iv. 4. Man shall not live by bread as the days of a tree are the days of my alone, but by every word that proceedeth people, and mine elect shall long enjoy out of the mouth of God.

mammon.

SPIRITUAL RICHES. though he was rich, for your sakes be

came poor, that ye through his poverty CCXIX. Not earthly, but spiritual might be rich. riches, or the interests of the soul, the chief Phil. iv. 6. Be careful for nothing, but object of a wise man's desires and pursuits. in everything by prayer and supplication, Ps. xxxvii. 16. A little that a righteous let your requests be made known to God. man hath is better than the treasures of 1 Cor. vii. 31, 32. many wicked.

Col. ii. 1, 2. Seek those things which Prov. xv. 6. Better is a little with the are above, where Christ sitteth on the fear of the Lord, than great treasures and right hand of God. Set your affections trouble therewith.

on things above, not on things on the xxiii. 4. Labour not to be rich. earth.

Jer. xlv. 5. Seekest thou great things James i. 10. Let the rich rejoice that for thyself? seek them not.

he is made low. Matt. vi. 8. Your Father knoweth what ii. 5. Hath not God chosen the poor things ye have need of.

of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of Ver. 9. 11. After this manner pray ye: the kingdom, which he hath promised to Give us this day our daily bread.

them that love him. Ver. 19, 20. Lay not up for your- 1 Pet. v. 6. Casting all our care upon selves treasures on earth, &c. But lay God, for he careth for you. Ps. lv. 22. up for yourselves treasures in heaven. 1 John ii. 15. Love not the world, -Ver. 24. Ye cannot serve God and neither the things that are in the world :

if any man love the world, the love of the Ver. 25—27. Take no thought for Father is not in him. your life, what ye shall eat or what ye v. 4. Whosoever is born of God over. shall drink, nor yet for your body what cometh the world. See 2 Cor. ix. 8. 10. ye shall put on: Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than rai. CCXX. Raiment promised. Matt. vi. ment? Behold the fowls of the air, for 25. Is not the body more than raiment? they sow not, neither do they reap, nor Ver. 28-30. Why take ye thought gather into barns, yet your heavenly for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the Father feedeth them; are ye not much field: they toil not, neither do they spin; better than they? Which of you by and yet I say unto you, That even Solotaking thought can add one cubit to mon, in all his glory, was not arrayed his stature. -Ver. 31. Your heavenly like one of these. Wherefore, if God so Father knoweth that ye have need of all clothe the grass of the field, which to-day these things.-Ver. 33, 34. But seek ye is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, first the kingdom of God and his righ. shall he not much more clothe you, O ye teousness, and all these things shall be of little faith? added unto you. Take therefore no Clothes miraculously supplied to Adam thought for the morrow, for the morrow and Eve, Gen. iii. 21.-To the Jews in shall take thought for the things of itself; the wilderness, Deut. viii. 4. Neh. x. 21. sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. -A gourd for Jonas, Jonah iv. 6. Luke xii. 21 to 35.

Luke x. 21. Jesus said, Martha, Mar. CCXXI. Supports of life miraculously tha, thou art careful and troubled about supplied to the Jews. Exod. xvi. 13, 14, many things; but one thing is need. 15. Quails and manna. ful, and Mary hath chosen that better Deut. viii. 3. The Lord thy God fed part that shall not be taken away from thee with manna, that he might make thee her.

know, that man doth not live by bread xxi. 34. Take heed lest your hearts only; but by every word that proceedeth be overcharged with the cares of this out of the mouth of the Lord, doth man life, and so that day come upon you un. live. Neh. ix. 21. Matt. iv. 4.

1 Kings xvii. 6. The ravens brought to John vi. 27. Labour not for the meat Elijah, bread and flesh in the morning, that perisheth, but for that meat which and bread and flesh in the evening. endureth unto everlasting life, which the Ver. 14. Thus saith the Lord God of Son of man shall give unto you.

Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste, 1 Cor. ili. 22. All things are yours. neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until 2 Cor, viii. 9, Our Lord Jesus Christ the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon

awares.